We are very fortunate that we were able to get the wonderful dental care we did for Meechi. If you haven't been reading this blog for long then you may not know about the four and a half hour sedated dental work he had to go through two years ago. That means you would also not know about the two hours it took him to wake up enough from the sedation for them to actually let me take him home. Or about the rest of the evening in which I had a very limp, very groggy, very hungry, and very much in pain three year old to take care of. You also may not realize that EVERY SINGLE TOOTH in this kid's mouth has a cap on it. the front teeth got white caps, the rest metal (because that is what insurance would pay for). A couple of those teeth had to have root canals done on them too. Poor guy!Anyway.... after two years of that shiny grin I am ready to start seeing white again.
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Wow - poor kid. Does the dentist think that the permanent teeth will be healthy? I can't believe he's gonna start losing teeth. Where does the time go? Irina had some spots on her molars when she came home and I feared the worst but I guess they are just stains as she's been to the dentist twice now and they don't mention it.
The dentists best guess is the permanent teeth will be healthy. She thinks that genetics may have played a part in the problem with his teeth and so there is some concern, but she feels that better than average dental hygiene should help with that. Her opinion was that the greatest damage was due to no prenatal care and then poor nutrition and lack of any dental care in the orphanage. Of course we learned the hard way that we needed to be extra vigilant with cleaning his teeth right away after he had juice or sugary treats. It is something I wish we had known from the beginning and we could have helped keep the problem to a minimum. Of course all kids should do this, but she said that with Meechi's background (and likely genetic predisposition) he needed it more than most. We have been careful to brush more, especially after sugars. Also he has been on fluoride tablets for a couple of years now, so that should help too.
Brushing when he was small was so hard because of his sensory issues. He hated brushing and fought it hard enough that I had to pin him down to do it, so that added to me not be as vigilant as I should. One of my major regrets in life!
I hear the tooth fairy gives extra shiny coins for extra shiny teeth :)
Poor guy. I just had to cavities filled and I thought I was going to DIE!
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